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No. 377,849. Patented Feb. 14, 1888.

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UNITED S'IATES PATENT O FIC JAMES CLOYES, or DES MOINES, IOWA, nssrenon TO THE nns Mourns BUGGY COMPANY, or SAMEPLAGE.

TWO-WHEELED VEHICLE.

SPEQIPICATION o ming part of Letters Patent No. 377,849, dated February 14, 1888.

Application filed October 31, 1887. Serial No. 253,909. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, JAMES H. CLOYES, a citizen of the United States, residing in Des Moines, county of Polk, State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Two-Wheeled Vel1icle,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to elastic hangers employed to suspend the fulcrumed body or seat-bars of a vehicle from the thills or other suitablesupport; and it has for its object cer-v tain improvements in the construction of the hanger, substantially as below described and claimed. I

In the drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a twowheeled vehicle in whichthe hanger is employed, one wheel being removed; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the hanger in Fig. 1, parts being in vertical section.

It will of course be understood that both sides of the vehicle are like the side here shown.

Referring to the lettered parts of the drawings, A is the ordinary style of vehicle-body or seat-bars fulcrumed to the thills G and suspended over the axle by elastic hangers, the upper eye, S, in this instance being attached to a loop in the upper end of the thill-braces e, and the eyeend a of the rod D being attached to the body A, Fig. 1.

Referring to Fig. 2, the lower end of the frame B of the hanger is provided with a pocket in which is placed a block of wood 7' or other suitable material. Through the block r and through the end of the frame B is a hole in which the rod D is inserted loosely enough to play endwise in said hole. The rod D also passes through a spiral spring, 0, which spring sits on the block r at the lower end. The upper end of the rod D is internally cored or hollow at u. Aplug, f, of wood or other suitable material, having. a hole through it is driven into the hollow end of said rod D. A cap, b, having a threaded hole, is screwed onto this end of the rod D, and said cap rests against the end of the spring 0. Pendent from the upper end of the frame B is a guide-rod, d, which rod is loosely passed through the hole of the plug f and into the hollow a of the rod D.

In the operation, when the bodyA is borne down, the pocket end of the frame and the cap 1 are drawn toward each other, and thus compress the spring from each end. The block 7' and plug f prevent the unpleasant noise heretofore experienced, caused by the vibration and friction of metal against metal. A

further precaution may be taken to obviate.

danger of noise by placing a tube, a, of leather, rubber, or the like, between the rod D and the spring 0, as in Fig. 2.

The use of the terms upper and lower ends and pendent (guide-rod) merely refer to theposition of parts in Fig. 2, it being obvious that the hanger may be used either end up or at other angles.

The hanger may be put to other uses than the one here shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. The hanger consisting of the frame having the end pocket provided with the perforated block, and the guide-rod, the rod having the internally-cored end, a cap on said end, and the perforated plug in said end, and the spiral spring, all arranged substantially as set forth.

2. The hanger consisting of a frame having the perforated block at one end and the guiderod at the other end, the internally-cored rod passed through said block, and provided with the perforated plug through which the guideforated plug in said end through which the v guide-rod is passed, the cap on the end of said rod, and the spiral spring between the block and cap, substantially as set forth.

In testimony of the foregoing I have hereunto subscribed my name in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES H. OLOYES.

Witnesses:

J OHN (l. PERKINS, FRANK Scorr. 

